ALL 60: A CHL PODCAST

News & Updates

This week’s episode is going to be all about our trip to Newfoundland this past weekend to see the QMJHL’s newest team the Regiment in action. Patrick McNeil and Kevin Jordan will be on the show but in this preview clip Steve sits down with Owner/President Glenn Stanford and asks what the difference is now with the QMJHL in Newfoundland compared to nearly 20 years ago when the Fog Devils left after just three seasons.

This weekend I was in Newfoundland and got to attend two QMJHL Regiment games at the Mary Brown’s Centre in St. John’s. Had some time with a delayed flight to get my review of the arena up before I even left the province! Check it out now.

This past weekend I was in Quebec for some non CHL games. For the first time I saw an AHL game in Laval and an ECHL game in Trois Rivieres and have posted reviews for those two rinks. I also went to a Montreal Canadiens game, so I’ve beefed up my review of the Bell Centre with a couple new photos and more thoughts. Check them out!

It’s a QMJHL week here at the podcast and Patrick McNeil is back to go over what’s been happening in the Q including the league’s first top prospects game. But in this preview clip Patrick and Steve wonder, where have all the game summaries gone?

In the arena review section of the website, I have finally have pages up for my nongame rinks. These are arenas that I have visited and seen in person but have not had the chance to actually watch a game in. Some are still missing as some photos of rinks I’ve visited are stuck on an old laptop, but I will hopefully get to those soon and when I do, I will post an update here. Also going through old pictures, I went through my 2024 Memorial Cup album and noticed some of my pics of the Dow Event Center in Saginaw were better than what I had up on that rink’s page, so I swapped them out.

This week Steve Clark is back on the show to talk all things OHL. One of those topics being the rivalry week we saw the league promote this past weekend and Steve has some ideas to perhaps make it even better! Check out the full episode tomorrow!

A new page has been added to the arena review section. Last night I attended a GOHL Sarnia Legionnaires game at Pat Stapleton Arena and I have posted my review of it on the site. Also a few weeks ago I went to a Barrie Colts game so I took a couple new interior photos and now have those up on my review page for Sadlon Arena. Check it out along with all my other arena reviews for my now 111 different arenas that I’ve seen games in. -Steve

This week Kevin Jordan makes his season debut after his epic two-week trip to Finland which saw him attend games at EIGHT different arenas in the Finnish pro league of Liiga. This week’s episode we go in depth and talk about the differences between attending hockey games in North America compared to Europe and what each of the eight rinks were link for Kevin. Which rink is Kevin talking about in our preview clip? Tune into this week’s episode tomorrow to find out!

This week Ryan Switzer is back from his Toronto trip to talk all things WHL and maybe a bit of the Blue Jays AL East Championship as well. But in this preview clip for tomorrows show Ryan informs Steve about how the Kamloops Blazers social media team connected their summer signing of JP Hurlbert and the capture of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Tomorrow, we release our newest episode of the podcast. Our normal rotation would see Ryan Switzer here, but he is in Toronto this week, so we bring back Steve Clark for an OHL episode! This week among many topics the Steve’s discuss some of the new rule changes for the 2025-26 OHL season as heard in this preview clip below. Subscribe on your favourite podcast app!

A small update to the arena reviews section. I have added a page for the GOJHL’s Cambridge Redhawks home arena Galt Arena Gardens.
I also recently was in Toronto so for the first time since my only game there in 1998 I went inside Maple Leaf Gardens to get photos of the new rink and added some more to my review about the new TMU arena inside.

Later this week our QMJHL 2025-26 season preview episode with Patrick McNeil will be released.
Here is a teaser clip from the episode as Steve & Patrick talk about what the defending league champion Moncton Wildcats bring to the table this season and whether or not they can be considered to pull off a repeat performance.

Our 2025-26 OHL season preview episode will be released tomorrow! The play-by-play voice of the Niagara IceDogs on YourTV Steve Clark is here to break down how all 20 teams look heading into the season. Here is a small teaser clip where Clark crushes McLean’s dreams of the Storm hosting the 2027 Memorial Cup tournament.

I have added a few arenas to my review section. Northeastern, Georgetown and Chatham are all now live. Still some more NCAA and provincial junior rinks to be added soon.

We are less than 24 hours away from the release of our 2025-26 WHL season preview episode with Ryan Switzer of the Swift Current Broncos. Here is another teaser clip from the show as Steve and Ryan discuss the new under armour jerseys and what a few of them are looking like with the new template which features something… random.

Who is ready for our 2025-26 WHL season preview episode? The full near two hour episode will be up early Thursday morning but here is a quick preview as Steve McLean and Ryan Switzer discuss Gavin McKenna leaving Medicine Hat for Penn State and whether or not it’s the best development path for other players.

Its launch day!!!
Today the website officially launches along with our season premiere episode featuring an interview with CHL President Dan MacKenzie!
You can listen to the episode on the show feed above, on this post here or check it out on your favourite podcast app!